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ISLAMABAD — A recent surge in suicide attacks in Pakistan reached the capital Saturday when a man wearing an explosives-laden jacket attacked a police compound but was shot before he could enter the main building. Two officers died and six others were wounded, police said.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred in the early evening at a police emergency response center in a residential neighborhood of Islamabad.
The assault fit with a Taliban threat made 10 days earlier that militants would launch strikes in major cities across Pakistan in retaliation for the military’s month-old offensive to oust the Taliban from the Swat Valley in the country’s northwest.
